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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 640-646Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801990
Keywords
body mass index; waist circumference; meta-analysis; leptin receptor polymorphism; linkage; association
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- NCRR NIH HHS [P41RR03655] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK052431, P30DK26687, F33DK09919, R01DK51716, DK25295, F33 DK009919, R01DK52431] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [R01ES09912] Funding Source: Medline
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METHOD: We analyzed data pooled from nine studies on the human leptin receptor (LEPR) gene for the association of three alleles (K109R, Q223R and K656N) of LEPR with body mass index (BMI; kg/m(2)) and waist circumference (WC). A total of 3263 related and unrelated subjects from diverse ethnic backgrounds including African-American, Caucasian, Danish, Finnish, French Canadian and Nigerian were studied. We tested effects of individual alleles, joint effects of alleles at multiple loci, epistatic effects among alleles at different loci, effect modification by age, sex, diabetes and ethnicity, and pleiotropic genotype effects on BMI and WC. RESULTS: We found that none of the effects were significant at the 0.05 level. Heterogeneity tests showed that the variations of the non-significant effects are within the range of sampling variation. CONCLUSION: We conclude that, although certain genotypic effects could be population-specific, there was no statistically compelling evidence that any of the three LEPR alleles is associated with BMI or WC in the overall population.
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